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Thousands of Libyans mark eight strife-torn years since uprising brought down Gadhafi
Thousands of Libyans took the streets Sunday to mark eight years since the uprising that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi, despite chronic political and security crises. Waving flags and wearing the country's national colors of red, black and green, marchers poured into Tripoli's Martyrs' Square, where ...
A Canadian minister announced Tuesday that she was quitting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Cabinet — a move that follows allegations his office pressured her to avoid prosecuting a major Canadian engineering firm. Veterans Affairs Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who was demoted from the post of justice ...
Migrant smuggling boat carrying 150 people in distress off Libya, says Italian aid group
An Italian aid group is reporting that a migrant smuggling ship with an estimated 150 people on board is in distress off Libya. The Mediterranea Saving Humans group, which monitors migrant rescues, said Monday on Twitter that it heard about a distress call from a ...
Aid effort brings little relief for migrants trapped in Libya limbo
A bigger presence of relief agencies, U.N. workers and diplomats in Libya has done little to ease the plight of migrants abused in detention centers and blocked from crossing the Mediterranean, migrants and aid workers say. Migrant boat crossings from Libya dropped steeply from mid-2017 ...
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday that 47 rescued migrants aboard the Sea Watch NGO vessel could finally disembark after Italy and six other countries agreed to take them in. France, Germany, Malta, Portugal, Romania and Luxembourg have all now offered to accept some ...
Italy sends socks, shoes and food to migrants stuck at sea but offers no safe haven
The Italian coast guard is bringing socks, shoes, bread and fruit to 47 migrants who have been stranded at sea for nine days aboard a German humanitarian group's rescue boat close to the Italian island of Sicily. Italy's hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, refuses to ...
Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini warns migrant rescue ship not to approach
Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday insisted the country's ports were closed to migrants, as a ship carrying 47 people rescued at sea headed for Sicily in deteriorating weather. "Umpteenth provocation: having stayed for days in Maltese waters, Sea Watch 3 with 47 ...
Spain rescues 325 migrants at sea over start of new year, searches for more
Spanish coast guard elements rescued 325 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean over the first two days of the new year, they said Wednesday. The news comes just days after a charity rescue vessel carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off the coast of Libya ...
Islamic State blamed as suicide attack on Libya foreign ministry kills at least three
Suicide attackers stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, killing at least three people, including a senior civil servant, the authorities said. Twenty-one other people were wounded in what authorities said was a suicide attack carried out by "terrorists. A car bomb ...
Mass grave yields remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by Islamic State in Libya
The remains of 34 Ethiopian Christians killed by the Islamic State group in 2015 have been found in a mass grave, a branch of the interior ministry said Monday. IS jihadis published a video in April 2015 showing the execution of at least 28 men, ...
Libya migrant rescue ship seeks Christmas port before storm but finds no European takers
A civilian ship with 33 migrants aboard rescued off the Libyan coast appealed Sunday for a European port to take them to before the weather turns at Christmas. German NGO ship Sea Watch 3 rescued the migrants, including four women and six children, when they ...
Libyan coast guard says it intercepted 15,000 migrants in 2018 but U.N. puts figure at almost double
Libya's coast guard has intercepted about 15,000 migrants trying to reach Italy by sea this year, a spokesman said on Thursday, while the United Nations — which gave a much higher estimate — said many were kept in inhumane conditions and subjected to abuse. The ...
